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Aug. 24 1926.

1,597,565 J: c. BACKUS UMBRELLA RACK Filed. Dec. 12, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Aug. 24,1926. 5 1,597,555

' J. C. BACKUS UMBRELLA RACK Filed Dec. 12, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Aug. 24, 1926.

UNITED STATES JOHN CLAYTON BACKUS, F SMETIIPOET, PENNSYLVANIA.

UMBRELLA. RACK.

Application filed December 12, 1923. Serial No. 680,253.

This invention relates to an improved umbrella rack particularly designed to accommodate one or more check locks for locking umbrellas upon the rack and seeks, among other objects, to provide a rack which may be economically produced entirelyfrom sheet metal. I

The invention seeks, as a further object, to provide a rack so constructed that a number of the racks may be readily assembled in a banked unit. I

The invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide a rack so constructed that an umbrella may be readily placed therein without liability of snagging the umbrella cover and which, should the umbrella be unfolded, will serve to bunch and retain the ribs of the umbrella in close relation so as to prevent catching of the ribs upon the rack as well as the interference of one umbrella with another.

And the invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide a rack embodying a driprpan semipermanently mounted so that while the drip pan. cannot become accidentally displaced and lost, the pan may, nevertheless, be removed and renewed and wherein the pan will be equipped with a spout so that water may be drawn off from the'pan without disturbing umbrellas in the rack.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figurevl is a perspective view, of my improved umbrella rack,

Figure 2is a vertical sectional view taken medially through the device,

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view showing the lock supporting plate of the rack,

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view on the line 44 ofiFigure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows, this view particularly showing the drip pan employed as wellas the rest irons for the legs of the rack, and

Figure 5 is aside elevation showing a rack unit composed of a pair of the racks. As previously intimated, the rack of the present invention is formed entirely of re-' silient sheet metal and in carrying the invention into effect, I employ apair of identical side plates which are arranged in vertical parallel relation and are formed at their vertical edges with flanges 11. Ex-

" tending between the side plates at their lower ends is a channel shaped bottom plate 12 having depending side flanges 13 riveted to the flanges 11 and end flanges 14 abutting the lower marginsof the side plates. Accommodated between'the flanges 13 of the bottom plate to overlie the end flanges 1.4 of said plate, are angle shaped rest plates 15 connected with the side plates 10 by rivets or other suitable fastening devices extending through the vertical flanges of-the rest plates and through the end flanges 14 of the bottom plate. As brought out in detail in Figure 4 of the drawings, the horizontal flanges ofthe rest plates are disposed to project away from the side plates 10 toward each other and bolted or otherwise detachably secured to said rest plates are legs 16.

These legs are preferably formed of suitable metal bars bent downwardly and inwardly near their ends to form feet 17.

Extending between the side plates 10 at their upper ends is a lock supporting top plate 18 having a narrow depending front flange 19 and a wide back flange 20 riveted to the rearmost side flanges of the side plates 10, as well as end flanges 21 also riveted to said side plates. The plate 18 is of less width than the side plates 10 and is, as. best shown. in Figure 1, designed to support a bankof individual check looks, as indicated at 22. Theselocks are each detachably secured to the plate ,18, and are preferably of the general type illustrated in PatentNo. 913,188, granted to me February 23, 1909. However, since the specific structure of the lock forms no part of the present invention, it is unnecessary to herein describe said locks in detail. Nevertheless,

in the interest of clarity, it may be stated that the casing of each of the locks is provided with a cavity or slot 23 to freelyac- The side and bottom walls of the panare preferably fashioned of a single piece of material while the end walls are formed separately and provided with flanges soldered or otherwise secured to the side and bottom walls. Set into the front side wall of the pan is an outlet spout 26 which may be normally closed by a suitable stopper 27 co-mmodate the handle portion of an um- 'brella and a lock bolt is provided to project and rising from the end walls of the pan are reduced laterally inclined wings 28 yieldably bearing at their upper ends against the side plates 10, the wings being compressed between the sides. Thus these wings will serve to center the drip pan between the sideplates and yieldably hold the pan against endwise movement as well as prevent rattling. Riveted to the rearmost flanges 11 is a retaining plate 29 provided at its upper edge with an inturned longitudinal lip 30 engaging over the upper edge of the rear side wall of the drip pan; and detachably connected to thefront flanges 11 of said side plates is a similar retaining plate 31 having a longitudinal inturned lip 32 engaging over the upper edge of the forward side wall of the pan. The plate 31 is detachably connected with the front side flanges of the side plates 10 by screws or other suitable fastening devices so that while said plate may be readily removed for displacing the pan, still the pan will be more or less permanently secured in position. Extending between the side plates 10 above the drip pan is a gathering plate 34 having depending side flanges 34 riveted to the side flanges 11 of said side plates, and formed through the plate 34; are spaced circular openings 35 each adapted to receive an umbrella therethrough. As shown in detail in Figure 4, the edge of each of the openings is rolled downwardly and laterally under the plate so that a smooth surface will be presented to an umbrella cover and possible snagging of the cover thus avoided. EX- ten'ding between the gathering plate 34 and the drip pan 25 is a scuff plate 36 abutting the rear side flange of said gathering plate and detachably secured to the rear side flangesof the side plates 10 by screw bolts or other suitable fastening devices 37. At its lower end portion, the plate is tapered to extend into the drip panso that when an umbrella is inserted through one of the openings 35 of the gathering plate, the point of the umbrella will strike the scufl' plate to be directed by the scuff plate into the drip pan when the handle portion of the umbrella may be moved into the slot 23 of the alining lock 22 and secured by saidlock. In this connection, it will be noted that when an umbrella is thus inserted through one of the o enings 35, the ribs as well as the cover 0 the umbrella Will be gathered and bunched together by the wall of said opening so that even though the rib structure of the umbrellav is unfastened when folded, the umbrella will, nevertheless, be held against opening movement. Extending between the rear flanges 11 of the side plates 10 above the plate 34 is a cross strip 38 upon which are mounted spaced channeled pegs 39 provided at their inner ends with lugs 40 inserted through the strip and IOVGItUIIlGCl thereagainst for connecting the pegs with the strip. The pegs are located in planes pass ing between the openings 85 of the gathering plate 3 L so that saidpegs will serve to separate umbrellas inserted through said openings. Extending between the rear flanges 11 ofthe side plates 10 above the strip is a stop strip ll. This strip is located to cooperate with the upper end portions of the ribs of an umbrella placed in the rack for confining said ribs within the lines of the rack and preventing the protrusion of the upper ends of the ribs at the rear of the raclr to possibly become caught thereagainst when the umbrella is removed.

In l igure 5 of the drawings, I have shown a pair of the racks. banked to form a-unit. For this purpose I provide a pair of legs 42 similar to the legs 16 but bent to define stepped horizontal portions 43 accommodating the rest plates 15 of the racks and exten dii'ig througl'i said rest plates and through said portions of the legs are bolts or other suitable fastening devices a l connecting the racks with the legs. Furthermore, in order that the racks may be banked, I provide the side plates 10 of each rack with vertically spaced pairs of openings L5 and extending transversely between the racks at the sides thereof are tie straps 46 secured to the racks by bolts or other suitable fastening devices 4'7 accommodated by the upper pairs of openings of one rack and the lower pairs of openings of theother rack. The racks are thus securely connected with each other to form a rigid unit and while I have shown a unit embodying only two of the racks, still. as will be appreciated, a unit embodying three or more of the racks may be readily produced by simply elongating the legs a2 to embody the desired number of steps there? 111.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a sheet metal structure including spaced vertical plates, a bottom plate having depending marginal flanges at its four edges, and angle rest plates disposed between theside flanges of the bottom plate, withthe vertical flange against the depending end flange thereof, and with the horizontal flange spaced from the bottom plate, the vertical flanges of the bottom and'rest plates being secured to each other and to the lower portions of the vertical plates.

2. In a sheet metalstructure including spaced vertical plates having inturned flanges at their vertical edges, a bottom plate having depending marginal flanges at its four edges and having the depending side flanges secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates, and angle rest plates disposed between the side flanges of the bottom plate, with the vertical flange against the depending end flange thereof, and with the horizontal flange spaced from the bottom plate, the vertical flanges of the bottom and rest plates being secured to each other and to the lower portions of the vertical plates.

3. In a sheet metal structure including spaced vertical plates having inturned flanges at their vertical edges, a bottom plate having depending marginal flanges at its four edges and having the depending side flanges secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates, and angle rest plates disposed between the side flanges of the bottom plate, with the vertical flange against the depending end flanges thereof, and with the horizontal flange spaced from the bottom plate, the vertical flanges of the bottom and rest plates being secured to each other and to the lower portions of the vertical plates, and metal strips under-lapping the rest plates and secured to the horizontal flanges thereof and extended outwardly and downwardly to provide feet.

4:. In a sheet metal structure including spaced vertical plates having inturned flanges at their vertical edges, a bottom plate having depending marginal flanges at its four edges arranged between the vertical plates and the inturned flanges thereof and secured thereto, and a top plate having depending side and end flanges, the rear flange being secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates and the end flanges being secured against the inner sides of the said vertica]. plates.

5. In a sheet metal structure including spaced vertical plates having inturned flanges at their vertical edges, a bottom plate having depending marginal flanges at its four edges arranged between the vertical plates and the inturned flanges thereof and secured thereto, a drip pan on the bottom plate and having flared end wings engaging the vertical plates, and retaining plates secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates and having inner flanges along their top edges to engage over the front and rear walls of the drip pan.

6. In a sheet metal structure including spaced vertical plates having inturned flanges at their vertical edges, a bottom plate having dependingmarginal flanges at its four edges arranged between the vertical plates and the inturned flanges thereof and secured thereto, a drip pan on the bottom plate and having flared end wings engaging the vertical plates, retaining plates secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates and having inner flanges along their top edges to engage over the front and rear walls of the drip pan, and a scufl' plate secured to the rear inturned flanges of the vertical plates and extending into the drip pan and overlapping the rear wall of the rear retaining plate. l

7 In a sheet metal structure including spaced vertical plates having inturned flanges at their vertical edges, a bottom plate having depending marginal flanges at its four edges arranged between the vertical plates and the inturned flanges thereof and secured thereto, a drip pan on the bottom plate and having flared end wings engaging the vertical plates, retaining plates secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates and having inner flanges along their top edges to engage over the front and rear walls of the drip pan, a scuff plate secured to the rear inturned flanges of the vertical plates and extending into the drip pan and overlapping the rear wall of the rear retaining plate, and a gathering plate having depending front and rear flanges secured to the inturned flanges of the vertical plates, and having the rear flange abutting the top edge of the scuff plate, the gathering plate being formed with article-receiving openings.

In testimony whereof I ElfllX my signature.

JOHN CLAYTON BACKUS. 

